How to watch Football (EPL, CL, FA Cup, & more) matches for free!

PPLIVE

Getting the Video

Download PPLive: http://www5.pplive.com/PPLiveSetup.exe

Then on match days go to: http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm

It's like a program list, find the match you want and next to it look for a http://www.asiaplate.com/photo/media.logo.pplive.gif then 5 minutes before the match starts click the red chinese text next to the http://www.asiaplate.com/photo/media.logo.pplive.gif and the match name.

Streams with the http://www.asiaplate.com/photo/icon.arrow2.gif next to them a are the best, but others still work fine. A red X means the link is dead.

PPLive will auto open and a chinese pop up will appear in your system tray, ignore that and within 2-3 minutes WMP will open and it will take another 2-3 minutes to buffer and it will start playing.

English Audio

Turn down the audio on your match (in WMP) then go to the bbc football website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm) and 90% of the time you will see :

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/8...nololol9gv.jpg

Now click the linked bit that i highlighted in the picture (The BBC Five Live radio thing) and that will load english commentary.

Usually the BBC Five Live commentary is about 30 second or so ahead of your video (because the video has had to buffer) so what i usually do is wait for the BBC guy to say something that i can remember (Rooney takes a shot and it goes behind for a goal kick.

Then i push the stop button on the BBC radio thing. Go to my WMP with the video and wait untill i see Rooney take a shot and it go behind and then quickly push start again on my BBC radio thing, it'll take 2-3 seconds to buffer up a again and the sound and picture will be in time.

Do the following the change PPLive into English;

-Open PPLive.
- Right click on the icon that appears on your task tray.
- Click on the option highlighted on the image below.
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2926/pplive1ik.gif


Coolstreaming

Download Coolstreaming: ftp://202.108.25.8/coolstreaming0.45.exe

Then on match days go to: http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm

Like you do with PPLive find the match you want and look for the small http://www.asiaplate.com/photo/media...lstreaming.gif. Next to that image it will have a channel name, usually ESPN. It's not a clickable link so you have to open up Coolstreaming, wait a few minutes and all the channels will appear.

Streams with the http://www.asiaplate.com/photo/icon.arrow2.gif next to them a are the best, but others still work fine. A red X means the link is dead.

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6656/coolstre7rr.jpg

They more people (users) the better speed you'll get and the better quality and smoothness you'll get. This is because Coolstreaming is built arround Bittorent. Also to help get the best quality get a program like NetLimiter and make sure you cap the upload of Coolstreaming at half your full upload, otherwise you'll get smoothness issues sometimes.

The Bitrate is the quality of the picture, the higher it is the higher the quality and bigger the picture, the downside to this is that more data needs to be downloaded every second so you'll need a faster connection. 1MB down 256K upload should be enough for the largest bitrate size, but again it depends on how many users there are to upload the data to you.

Anyway, you know your match is going to be on ESPN at 4PM say, load up Coolstreaming 15 minutes before the match starts, this is so you can give it time to buffer and get playing the video and audio at a very smooth rate.

To load ESPN you just double click on the words ESPN within Coolstreaming. Give it 2-3 minutes and WMP will open and start buffering. You will need to latest WMP (Currently 10), it's free from Microsoft's website.

When you're finished close WMP and always remember to close the Coolstreaming icon in your system tray, because just closing WMP will not stop the stream and thus you'll still be uploading and downloading.

You can use the same method as you would use for PPLive to get English audio although i've found that quite a lot of Coolstreaming ESPN matches are already in English.

Links will be updated and posted HERE.

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Great stuff, Peerzy. Loads of people will find that useful.

TVs are becoming surplus :smilie4:

Main reason i find it helpful is because you have to pay £50+ a month to watch football in the UK now with Sky. BBC only has a highlights program late at night. So unless you pay you can't see any matches (par a few rare CL matches)

This definitely works, watched the ManU(spit!) game earlier after Peerzy posted this on another thread.:D


Anyone think this thread should be pinned?(I do)

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Most definitely.

I can't wait to share this with my son's soccer team ,we get the games a couple of days late here. Excellent post Peerzy . :01:

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I can't wait to share this with my son's soccer team ,we get the games a couple of days late here. Excellent post Peerzy . :01:

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Everyone knows it's puntsphere :dry:

This should be pinned, I will request it in the EATB section.

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showt...48#post1116348

I'm watching my third Premiership match today :happy:

Birmingham Vs Man City. It's a shite game, but that's not the point.

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I can't wait to share this with my son's soccer team ,we get the games a couple of days late here. Excellent post Peerzy . :01:

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OOps sorry , um Football I mean . :D

Does it only do footie or is there any possibilty to get to see some rugby too? :unsure:

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Does it only do footie or is there any possibilty to get to see some rugby too? :unsure:

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So far it's only shown Football and a tad bit of golf for me, but thats because i only turn it on at match times. I've seen adverts for baseball, rugby and other sports tho, so if you tune in at match times it might show something.

They're (ESPN) going to show/are showing the Tri-Nations.

I'm not exactly sure of when but I presume that's what it was as during my soccer marathon this afternoon, I saw a few trailers with Tana Umaga, George Gregan, Percy Montgomerie and various others scoring tries.

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They're (ESPN) going to show/are showing the Tri-Nations.

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Damn. I completely forgot the Aussies were going to be stomped on by playing the Springboks this afternoon.

Australia played the Springboks earlier :unsure:


Edit: And lost :01:


Edit2: Spoiler above.

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Best interweb forum joke ever.

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Try telling this to the bosses at my place of work, they`ve just had one of them plasma screens put in the board room so they can watch the golf and it took four of us to lift it on the wall it was that heavy. :dry:

Its a sticky :01: . Thanks alot Peerzy

-Added guide on how to use Coolstreaming.

Someone gave me this link to watch QPR V Shef Wed(Sky Sports game) online;

mms://213.8.106.59/1042444

After a little digging I found it was supplied by this site;

http://www.livesports.co.il/

I can't understand the language so was wondering if one of you guys could work out how to use this site.

Only just seen this thread, watching Man U vs Man City right now. Great stuff, thanks :)

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Usually the BBC Five Live commentary is about 30 second or so ahead of your video (because the video has had to buffer) so what i usually do is wait for the BBC guy to say something that i can remember (Rooney takes a shot and it goes behind for a goal kick.

Then i push the stop button on the BBC radio thing. Go to my WMP with the video and wait untill i see Rooney take a shot and it go behind and then quickly push start again on my BBC radio thing, it'll take 2-3 seconds to buffer up a again and the sound and picture will be in time.

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I can't get the radio 5 commentary synched with the video though. I press stop on the commentary, then play again at an appropriate time, but the commentary just rebuffers and starts playing live again. I can't seem to force that 30ish sec delay.

Any tips?

Yeah it doesn't work anymore, it use to buffer and continue from where you had stopped it but it doesn't anymore.

Ah shame, wicked info though mate - thanks a lot.

Peerzy mate, the PPlive download link above wasn't working - I've been trying to install it on this other PC.

Here is an alternative download link:

http://www5.pplive.com/PPLiveSetup.exe

Link updated, Thanks.

Asiaplate's pretty screwed now - there doesn't seem to be any links for Premiership games.

Anyone know of a good alternative?

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Asiaplate's pretty screwed now - there doesn't seem to be any links for Premiership games.

Anyone know of a good alternative?

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Something to do with the English FA hunting down and eating any forums that post PPL links to EPL games :dabs:

If you get a few of the programs (Sopcast, PPStream and PPLive) and open one of them just after a Premier League game kicks off, just choose the channel with the most viewers and it's usually the match you're after.

Sometimes it won't work, but if you have a few other proggies as a back up - one of them usually comes up trumps.

Yeah, I've found a couple of sites that sometimes list what channels the game can be seen on (asiaplate does if you register), but it can be hard work selecting the right channel from the program sometimes.

I like to watch Spurs matches, so on a Saturday afternoon the most viewers thing doesn't really work :(

You could try supporting a more widely followed team; Charlton, for example.

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OK, I got to see Spurs tonight - 3-1, woot.

Like you say, you need a wide selection of programs to able to watch all the games you'd like nowadays. I used TVants tonight.

Very very useful link if you're trying to watch Premiership footie for free - lots of links and useful info.

By the way, you can still use 5 Live radio to get English commentary as long as you use RealPlayer - this is detailed in the link above also.

Great link, thanks!

anything for WorldCup?
i bought smart cards for 1100.Aed for 1 year ill be watching it anyway but i want it for some of my friends who couldnt afford to buy the card.

ohh btw no more work till the end of the cup :eeeeeeee:

I prefer the program TVAnts
link :
http://download.tvants.com/pub/tvant...vantsSetup.EXE

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anything for WorldCup?
i bought smart cards for 1100.Aed for 1 year ill be watching it anyway but i want it for some of my friends who couldnt afford to buy the card.

ohh btw no more work till the end of the cup :eeeeeeee:

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BBC let you watch games online for free on there website, UK only however. I hope to be able to get some videos of goals and highlights, but i'm not promising anything and it may not be all games (Japan V Croatia is hardly screaming out to have a 20 minute highlight video).

BawA some common sites to find football games are tracker.denness.net, mininova.org,torrentspy.com . BTW thanks Peerzy for writing this guide, it will definetely come in handy in the future..

Hey peerzy no matter how much i try i cant seem to connect to CCTV-5 no matter what. Whats your recommendation to overcoming this problem?

No idea, maybe the link is down. If it works for other sites they chances are the link is down.

the links dosnt work

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I prefer the program TVAnts
link :
http://download.tvants.com/pub/tvant...vantsSetup.EXE

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I agree. TVAnts is a good one. ;)